Non-refillable bottle.



PATENTED JULY 21, 1903.

L. BRAND.

NUN-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 21. 1902.

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PATENT Patented July 21, 1903.

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LOUIS BRAND, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

V NoN-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SII?.ECIIETIGA'IIOhlt] forming part of Letters Patent No. 734,039, datedJuly 21, 1903.

Application led August 21, 1902.

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Be it known that I, LoUIs BRAND, of the city of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles, in the State of California, have invented. a new or Improved Non-Refillable Bottle, of which the followingis a full, clear, and eX- act description or specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings.

My invention, which relates to a new or improved non-rellable bottle, consists of a receptacle or container of liquid formed of glass or other suitable material, and the device by which the said bottle is rendered nonrefillable consists as hereinafter described.

On the annexed drawings, Figure l is a vertical section, partlyin elevation, of a nonrellable bottle constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same looked at in position at right angles to Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of part of the device by which the bottle is rendered non-refllable and drawn on the line a a, Fig. l. Fig. et is a plan of my new or improved non-rellable bottle.

In the ligures of drawings the receptacle or container for the liquid is marked A A, and it is constructed with a deep recess B at either side thereof, these recesses B being opposite each other. The device, which is applied to the bottle to render it non-refillable, consists of the metallic cap C, which is either tted air-tight to the neck of the bottle A (marked A') or this cap may be cemented to the neck of the bottle. This cap O has a pair of metallic straps D attached to it, which straps are bent at their lower parts, as shownin the drawings, and are secured within the recesses B' by sealing-wax E, which is melted and dropped into the recesses after the bottle A has been filled with the liquid to be sold therein and after the cap O and its contained parts have been placed upon the neck A of the bottle A. When the recesses B B have been filled with melted sealing-waX,the sealing-wax in each recess is sealed with the bottlers seal, and these seals being unbroken insure that the liquid in the bottle is the liquid originally placed therein, for the reason that without removing these seals and taking olf the metallic cap O from the mouth of the bottle it is not possible to refill the bottle, because of the automatically-acting valve F and ball G Serial No. 120,553` (No model.)

therein, .which operate in the following described manner: The valve F ts closely 'to and rests upon the mouth (preferably inclined) ofthe bottle A while in the position shown at Fig. 1, and the ball G rests in the hollow or depression in the valve F, as shown at Fig. l. When the bottle is held in the inclined position for pouring out some of its contents through the spout H, then the ball G rolls into the gradually-narrowing part of the spout until it cannot roll any farther thereinto, and the valve F at the same time falls forward sufficiently to open the neck of the bottle, when the liquid passes out of the mouth of thebottle and ows through the angular grooves formed in the cap O and surrounding the ball G, as more particularly shown in the transverse section, Fig. 3, and the liquid is discharged through the curved spout H for being utilized as required. The reason for making the spout H curved in the manner shown in the drawings is for preventing the insertion of any instrument for tampering with the valve F and in any way opening it, should any attempt be made to refill the bottle from or through the spout H. A cork is or may be placed in the spout H, which is withdrawn in order to pour liquid out of my non-refillable bottle.

I claim- A non-lellable bottle consisting of the combination of a liquid-holding receptacle,

V'recesses in said receptacle opposite each other, a curved, grooved, metallic spout, a circular metallic cap forming the downward continuation of the curved, groved, metallic spout, the straps attached to the said metallic cap extending down over the body of the bottle and into the recesses at opposite sides thereof, the sealing-wax seals for holding the ends of the said straps in said recesses in the body of the bottle, the ball and valvewithin the curved, grooved, metallic spout, all operating together in the manner and for -the purposes substantially as set forth. y Y

In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of June, A. D. 1902, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS BRAND. Witnesses:

ST. JOHN DAY,

W. E. MURRAY. 

